ALIEN CRAFT SPOTTED ON COLLISION COURSE WITH EARTH

actually it is #NASA #OSIRIS -REx returning a sample from Asteroid #Bennu

Spotted on 16th September by #ESA’s Optical Ground Station (OGS) telescope in Tenerife, OSIRIS-REx was 4.66 million km from Earth sample will arrive on Sept. 24th

#NASA #OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe now only 520,000 km away from earth.

Sample release at 4:42am MDT
Divert maneuver at 5:02am MDT
Sample entry at 8:42am MDT over Utah

all happening tomorrow.

#OSIRIS-REx

Coming in ... er ... cold with a special delivery

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-system/#/sc_osiris_rex

we get signal
What? Main screen turn on
Its you!

#OSIRIS-Rex

#VirtualTelescope spotted #OSIRIS-REx 324,000 km from earth

amazing effort for this shot

Craft with sample of #Bennu is less than 200k from earth. only 6 hours away from earth entry

#OSIRIS-REx delivers the US's first pristine asteroid sample after a 3.86 billion-mile journey. Watch landing live from DOD Utah Test & Training Range

https://www.youtube.com/live/21X5lGlDOfg?feature=shared

amazing work. Sample separation from #OSIRIS-REx was detected and confirmed

Daniel Parrott at Siding Spring observatory, Australia managed to observe the separation of the sample return capsule from #OSIRIS-REX:

landing ETA in 20 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjoWdUX8jHY

infrared tracking #OSIRIS-Rex from ground!

ENTRY IS NOW

SO EXCITED

#OSIRIS-Rex

CHUTES DEPLOYED at 5000 feet *happy sigh*

Welcome to earth #Bennu

\o/

Recovery Helicopters have sighted #OSIRIS-REx SRC

TOUCHDOWN!

#OSIRIS-REx SRC

The #OSIRIS-REx main spacecraft, now renamed #OSIRIS-APEX #OSIRISAPEX, is passing through the perigee of its hyperbola and heading back out towards solar orbit to visit asteroid #Apophis

#OSIRIS-REX #SRC Confirmed sighting. Stabe-1 Perfect landing

9except for the drogue chute maybe not deploying

#OSIRIS-REx #SRC

Nominal conditions. Samples intact

#OSIRIS-REx #SRC landing recovery complete on Helo1

#OSIRIS-REx #SRC safely delivered to Temporary clean room operations facislity

is the sample #OSIRIS-REx collected from the ASTEROID #Bennu a Meteorite?

What do you think they are ?

#OSIRIS-REx Post landing press conference starting soon on NASA LIVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA9UZF-SZoQ

@Kinnison

<waits patiently for news of jet crash over desert near landing site>

@Kinnison

I'd say a meteorite has been burned and contaminated falling through our atmosphere, not lovingly carried through it in a sterile, pristine environment!

@Kinnison

Space rocks. 🙂

@Kinnison Where did it end up landing?

@poemblaze

N 40°22'20.1" W +113°14'23.1"

https://maps.app.goo.gl/mSq3rPpJE6YCb4Ra9

@Kinnison I could get there if I drove 21.5 hours. 😃. I suspect it would already be gone. 😉

@poemblaze

area is restricted and is part of the The Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) possible there is unexploded ordinance in the area

There might be a Drogue chute in the area I do not think anyone has found yet